Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1859 — The Rcason Why. [ARTICLE]

The Rcason Why.

Several Ropublica’n papers in he State having spoken of Rr. Colfax as a suitablcandidate forG .verirnr in IS it), th: Indiana American stated that it had objection ; to Mv. Coil’a.v fin- that oili/e. In a _• number the 4?.a ri -an ( i,., ... ~, as follows: ■ S'.:!, VI.ER CiM-fAx—VVe object to the use of this gent'email's name, iu Cim;p ction with the. offii•<• of Governor, 'pec uise we believe he ..an .lie vastly more us<“ul in fii> present positidn. As we have rep'atrdiv stated, we believe the doctrine of rotation iu ofiiee is one of the most miscliievo;;.-, inventions of ihodern limbs. yi r . (X ifax will have acquired a fund of Congressional knowledge in his six year’s service in Congress, which he cannot transfer; to any successor, and which the State of Indiana h.ts a right to require to be used in behalf of her in7ere«‘ in the councils at. Washington. \Ve ma . consent to his being a successor to Hon. VV . M. McCarty in 1860, but we protest sgainst his changing his field of labor while there are ahundred men just as available as in for Governor, and who will make just as good a Governor, while there are none in his district who can at once take his place in Congress. VV e hope the Nort i will, sooner or later, learn to keep her men in Congress after they shali have acquired positions and influence, and an acquaintance with the Congressional business.